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CVE-2012-3405

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Published: Feb 10, 2014Modified: Apr 29, 2026

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5.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9
Source: NVD

Description

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Affected (8)

1 product
Ubuntu Linux
1 product
Glibc
2 products
Enterprise Linux
Enterprise Virtualization
Configuration A
8 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Canonical
Version 10.04
Version 11.04
Version 11.10
Version 12.04
Version 8.04
Version 2.14
Version 6.0
Version 3.0

Related CWEs

References (14)

Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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